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Zotero Reference Management: Organizing and Annotating

Zotero is a tool that can help you keep track of your research and create bibliographies

Create a Collection

To create a new "collection", click the folder icon on the left side of Zotero Desktop App, type the name you want for your collection, and you're done! You can click and drag sources into that folder now!

 

Tag Your Sources

Tagging can make it easy to find similar kinds of articles or topics across different collections. If the database that you're exporting the source from has tagged it (for example, with subject headings), Zotero will import those into your tags. To add your own tags:

  1. Click the source you want to tag
  2. On the right hand side-bar, click the "tags" tab
  3. Click "add" and type the term you'd like to assign as a tag